Asus Strix 285 (Low performance) (help)

[static1120]

Hello everyone it has been a while since I have posted on these forums, would love to get some insight or help to crack down on a issue im having.

To begin, I would consider myself to have a good knowledge about computers, so please don't throw me down to the basics of running system cleaners or updating drivers.

I recently got this video card, and I am running a clean install of windows 8.1 with the latest drivers for my video card installed.

Almost all games run but with constant frame drops,

I tried running Far cry 4 on max settings it runs smooth in some seconds, and would get frame drops and stutters
I thought hey maybe the card is not powerful enough
I lowered my settings down to very high, high, medium, low
Same issue even at low settings, game runs smooth, then I get drops and stutters.

This makes me think maybe my hard drive is taking to much time to load textures or the ram is not pushing out the texture files to my card fast enough, yet even on low settings I have issues.

My hard drive is not fragmented.

This is my current setup.

Asus M5A97 LE R2.0
Asus Strix 2GB R9 285 (not overclocked)
G.skill sniper 1600 8GB Ram.
AMD Fx-8150 8 Core, (not overclocked)
Corsair H60 water cooler
Corsair CX600 Powersupply.
1TB Hard drive

I would say my issues are the same described on this thread.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2366128/sapphire-285-frame-drops-bad-frames.html
Sadly he didn't get a good solution and was forgotten.
Sorry for the long post I just wanted to get all the information possible out there.
Thanks.

 

[Tacticall993]

Hello everyone it has been a while since I have posted on these forums, would love to get some insight or help to crack down on a issue im having.

To begin, I would consider myself to have a good knowledge about computers, so please don't throw me down to the basics of running system cleaners or updating drivers.

I recently got this video card, and I am running a clean install of windows 8.1 with the latest drivers for my video card installed.

Almost all games run but with constant frame drops,

I tried running Far cry 4 on max settings it runs smooth in some seconds, and would get frame drops and stutters
I thought hey maybe the card is not powerful enough
I lowered my settings down to very high, high, medium, low
Same issue even at low settings, game runs smooth, then I get drops and stutters.

This makes me think maybe my hard drive is taking to much time to load textures or the ram is not pushing out the texture files to my card fast enough, yet even on low settings I have issues.

My hard drive is not fragmented.

This is my current setup.

Asus M5A97 LE R2.0
Asus Strix 2GB R9 285 (not overclocked)
G.skill sniper 1600 8GB Ram.
AMD Fx-8150 8 Core, (not overclocked)
Corsair H60 water cooler
Corsair CX600 Powersupply.
1TB Hard drive

I would say my issues are the same described on this thread.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2366128/sapphire-285-frame-drops-bad-frames.html
Sadly he didn't get a good solution and was forgotten.
Sorry for the long post I just wanted to get all the information possible out there.
Thanks.

Hmm this is interesting. I have the R9 290 and it makes lava LOL. Anyways, I THINK I've had the same issue you had. I would play battlefield 4, high frames to start with, then it just drops. I would keep messing with my GPU and some random (retarded) stuff to see if I can fix the issue. So it turns out that vertical sync was on, and I turned it off. I dont have this issue anymore.

 

[Undying89]

FX 8150 an old bulldozer core at 3.1ghz. Typical CPU bottleneck mate...

 

[Tacticall993]

FX 8150 an old bulldozer core at 3.1ghz. Typical CPU bottleneck mate...

But his games shouldnt have that big of a frame drop in the middle of games.

 

[static1120]

FX 8150 an old bulldozer core at 3.1ghz. Typical CPU bottleneck mate...

But his games shouldnt have that big of a frame drop in the middle of games.

Exactly, actually clocked at 3.6Ghz, not a bottleneck issue, or well I cant be completely sure, but the issue is game will run smooth like butter on either Ultra or low, and I will have random stutters- frame drops even if theres not a gpu intensive scene going on.

Read about disabling turbo core technology on my BIOS, but that fixed nothing.

V-sync is off, Im going to look further into my catalyst settings to see if I find anything that might fix it.

 

[Tacticall993]

FX 8150 an old bulldozer core at 3.1ghz. Typical CPU bottleneck mate...

Exactly, actually clocked at 3.6Ghz, not a bottleneck issue, or well I cant be completely sure, but the issue is game will run smooth like butter on either Ultra or low, and I will have random stutters- frame drops even if theres not a gpu intensive scene going on.

Read about disabling turbo core technology on my BIOS, but that fixed nothing.

V-sync is off, Im going to look further into my catalyst settings to see if I find anything that might fix it.

How old is your GPU? I would contact your manufacturer before it becomes too late to exchange it.

 

[static1120]

FX 8150 an old bulldozer core at 3.1ghz. Typical CPU bottleneck mate...

Exactly, actually clocked at 3.6Ghz, not a bottleneck issue, or well I cant be completely sure, but the issue is game will run smooth like butter on either Ultra or low, and I will have random stutters- frame drops even if theres not a gpu intensive scene going on.

Read about disabling turbo core technology on my BIOS, but that fixed nothing.

V-sync is off, Im going to look further into my catalyst settings to see if I find anything that might fix it.

How old is your GPU? I would contact your manufacturer before it becomes too late to exchange it.

I just bought it less than 2 weeks ago, I just don't feel its a defective card, I think its more of a wrong configuration somewhere.

 

[Undying89]

Did you try some other games beside FC4? Not GPU intensive scene is exactly where your fps will drop. Most likey outdoors or in the city where CPU horsepower is needed.

 

[static1120]

firing up, Watchdogs at the moment, last time I played it, it does good on high settings, only time I get frame drops or stutters are when going high speed in a vehicle

 

[Tacticall993]

firing up, Watchdogs at the moment, last time I played it, it does good on high settings, only time I get frame drops or stutters are when going high speed in a vehicle

How many Hertz does your monitor have? Also, are you using any video adapters?

 

[static1120]

After disabling AMD turbo core all my other games run butter smooth, except Far cry 4 it might have some issues that need to be taken care of.
I am using a Vizio 32 TV as my monitor on my desk, got used to it, for over 4 years using TVs as my monitor, and video adapters? Im simply using HDMI to connect the video card to the TV.